Setting The events of the story first unfold in the "Theseus Palace". ... I think this setting is appropriate because it coincides with the time frame and the forest gives them privacy, away from prying eyes. ... Only suspense is employed in the story, it is employed in the story because Puck leads Demetrius and Lysander in opposite directions; while Hermia and Helena's fight seems irreparable. ... Themes and Thesis The theme of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is often explored through the motif of love out of balance situations in which a disparity or in equality ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a gentle comedy, which tells several stories each one occurring during a single summer night in a magical forest. ... It is a tale that does not seem to concentrate on themes as well as it does with its ideas. ... Helena is a young woman of Athens who is in love with Demetrius in an almost pathetic and desperate way by proclaiming "use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me, Neglect me,"(Act 2 Sc. 1), to him. ... Although she is tall and blonde, the verbal abuse that she receives from Demetrius gives her very low self-esteem as she loses confidence in her...

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• Grade Level: High School

This is a very imaginative story and many supernatural powers are included, which helps strengthen the play and grasp a better understanding of the plot and qualities of the characters. ... Hermia and Helena then start to call each other names: "O me! ... After that Puck try's to right his wrongs by giving an explanation. ... -And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream,"" (V, i, 418-419). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In this essay I will try to give you the plot, the play and I will also try to show the obstacles that prove "The course of true love never did run smooth." ... Oberon is jealous of the attention that the boy receives so he demands that Titania gives him the boy. ... Even though the play involves a number of romance elements, it is not truly a love story it does not give me a lot of emotions from the characters. This allows me to be able to enjoy the torments and conflicts that the lovers suffer. ... The theme of love's difficulty is explored trough the motif of love out of balance. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The themes of the play are dreams and reality, love and magic. ... This is seen in everyday life, women give up their wants to make their men happy. ... In this area, legends, myths, and impossible stories originate. ... The fairies bring the stories to you from the East. ... (McIntosh 3) " four happy days bring in another moon: but, O, me thinks, how slow. ...

• Word Count: 2837
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The character of Theseus appears in Greek myth (he was a friend of Hercules and a giant-killer), but Shakespeare more likely got the idea for his character from Chaucer's Knight's Tale, which refers to Theseus and Hippolyta in the larger context of the story of Palamon and Arcite, two men in love with the same woman (a plot that resembles aspects of this play). ...

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However, if one man can so exquisitely write fictional stories about love and still include a controversial issue in them, then where do we draw the line between fact and fiction? ... The first quatrain introduces the theme with the image of reflected beauty, "Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest" (ll. 1). ... Shakespeare is also once again reminding the audience that her mother had hoped to achieve a sense of immortality by giving birth to her. ... The speaker is giving his beloved an ultimatum as it were. ... With this the speaker is able to accomplish what can only dream of;...

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• Grade Level: High School

Theseus admits that he has heard this story, and he takes Egeus and Demetrius aside to discuss it. ... Quince tells the group what play they are to perform: The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe, which tells the story of two lovers, separated by their parents' feud, who speak to each other at night through a hole in a wall. ... Titania, however, refuses to give the boy up. ... The conversation turns to the little Indian boy, whom Oberon asks Titania to give him. ... She invites Oberon to go with her to dance in a fairy round and see her nightly revels, bu...

• Word Count: 4960
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: High School